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Policy & Design Reports
This section features a series of original research reports aimed at developing design and policy tools that address flood adaptation and historic urban form change in the context of New York City.
Browse the publications below to learn more about the flood risk faced by New York City's historic built environment; the multiple goals and values involved in the transformation of historic streetscapes towards flood resilience; streetscape-sensitive flood adaptation design strategies for New York City's historic buildings and neighborhoods; real-world design studies, and heritage resilience policy-making agendas.
Digital Report 06
Policy & Procedural Recommendations
As a conclusion to the whole research project, this report puts forward a series of policy-making agendas and procedural recommendations synthesized from findings made throughout the previous Digital Reports, and opinions extracted from Policy-Maker & Stakeholder Interviews.
Digital Report 05
Adaptation Design Study: East Harlem
Paired with Digital Report 04, this design study envisions the flood adaptation of East 118th Street — a historic residential corridor in East Harlem, New York City — by identifying feasible and relatively low-cost retrofitting strategies that are friendly to residential property owners and compatible with historic urban forms.
Digital Report 04
Adaptation Design Study: South Street Seaport
Building on the Adaptive Streetscape Framework and Streetscape-Sensitive Design Strategies developed in the previous reports, this report envisions the adaptation of a mixed-use street corridor in South Street Seaport historic district as it relates to the retention of the street corridor's vigor, scale, transparency and accessibility.
Digital Report 03
Streetscape-Sensitive Design Strategies
Addressing the absence of streetscape-sensitive flood adaptation design strategies targeted at New York City’s historic buildings and neighborhoods, this report explores such strategies based on nationwide flood regulations and guidelines, successful built cases, together with the author’s own illustrative input.
Digital Report 02
Adaptive Streetscape: Concept & Framework
Identifying streetscape change as a key tension in the heritage resilience discourse, this report proposes an “Adaptive Streetscape” framework and a set of evaluation metrics that serve to understand and measure the various values involved in the transformation of historic streetscapes towards flood resilience.
Digital Report 01
Flood Risk of New York City's Historic Built Environment
This report examines the physical flood risk faced by New York City's historic built environment, which is compounded by potential adverse streetscape impacts brought by flood adaptation interventions, as well as the city's underdeveloped heritage resilience policy framework.
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